nitwit

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Still a huge percent of Americans that are brain dead ignorant jacka@@ that were to stupid to realize this nitwit was and still is an empty suit.

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  • Which tax beat nitwit is in charge of protocol for the ever campaining annointed one? —  CNN Political Ticker
  • Steele and his fellow nitwits think that what another nitwit, Ronald Reagan, called the "magic of the marketplace" will somehow right our economic ship. —  MRZine.org
  • You know the media nitwit-pickers have struck when, at some point, they've made the exact opposite charge -- that Obama's too serious, too off the cuff, or does too little, all well-worn themes from the campaign. —  The Nation: Top Stories
  • Speaking of sick f ucks, the above nitwit is psychosis in action. —  Think Progress
  • They drove the country into the ditch and this kind of remark is about all they have to offer, meanwhile the democrats are busy fixing the ungodly mess created by the previous nitwit-in-chief. —  WVEC Top Stories
 

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  1. Probably obsolete nit, nothing (from German dialectal, from Middle High German niht, nit; see nix2) + wit1.
 

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